Newly Released Documents Shed Fresh Light on NATO’s Eastward Expansion

In 1991, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl wanted to prevent the eastward expansion of NATO and Ukrainian independence, according to newly released files from the archive of the German Foreign Ministry. Was he trying to assuage Moscow?

Usually, only experts take much note when another volume of “Documents on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany” is released by the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History.